EC approves DSV takeover of DB Schenker
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By Mike Wackett
Hapag-Lloyd has taken delivery of the last of 17 ULCVs ordered by UASC in 2013 as “some of the greenest and largest container vessels in the world”.
The 15,000 teu Al Jmeliyah was part of an order of six 19,900 teu and 11 15,000 teu ULCVs from South Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries.
The $2bn order was for the first “LNG-ready” ULCVs, built to mitigate the-then runaway cost of oil. However, oil prices subsequently collapsed and the conversion to LNG was no longer economically ...
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